Upcomming Exhibition at MOAH, the Museum Of Art and History in Lancaster, CA - “Li’l Baja’s Last Ride”

“Verdugo”, oil on wood panel, 16 x 20 inches, 2018

As part of “The New Vanguard II”, I’ll be showing a new body of work entitled “Li’l Baja’s Last Ride”, based in large part on the road between my hometown neighborhood in Los Angeles and Lancaster, and the tragedy the befell “Li’l Baja”, my old car, on that very same route.

The New Vanguard II

October 21 - December 30, 2018

Artists:

Sandra Chevrier | Cages and the Allure of Freedom

Seth Armstrong | Lil' Baja's Last Ride

Craig 'Skibs' Barker | Suzy is a Surf Rocker

Brooks Salzwedel | Rut in the Soil

Featured Installations:

“The Lancaster Museum of Art and History, in collaboration with Los Angeles' Thinkspace Projects, is pleased to present The New Vanguard II, a dynamic group exhibition of works by international artists working in the New Contemporary art movement. The highly anticipated follow up to 2016's successful first iteration of The New Vanguard, on view in tandem with this year's POW WOW! Antelope Valley will feature special solo projects by artists Sandra Chevrier, Seth Armstrong, Craig 'Skibs' Barker, and Brooks Salzwedel.

A movement unified as much by its diversity as its similitude, 'New Contemporary' has come to denote an important heterogeneity of styles, media, contexts, and activations over the course of its establishment since the 90s. Unified in its fledgling beginnings by a founding countercultural impulse searching for its own nomenclature, the New Contemporary movement's shifting and inclusive designations have offered alternative narratives over the years to those popularized by the dominant art establishment and its conceptual predilections.

Though stylistically disparate, the work belonging to this rapidly expansive movement reveals a desire to reference the popular, social, and subcultural domains of contemporary experience, grounding, rather than rarifying, imagery in the familiar. Looking to the urban landscape and the kaleidoscopic shift of individual identities within it, these artists use the figurative and narrative to anchor their work in the accessible and aesthetically relatable. A fundamentally democratic stance governs the ambitions of this new guard, ever in search of novel ways to expand rather than to contract.”